IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC, A THOUSAND FEET BELOW THE SURFACE OF THE WATER, A HUGE SPACESHIP IS DESCOVERED RESTING ON THE OCEAN FLOOR
Rushed to the scene is a group of american scientists
who decend together into the depths of the sea to investigate
this astonishing discovery.
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What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attemts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship of phenominal dimensions, appsrently undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling of all, it appears to be at least three hundred years old....
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Has the ship come from an alien culture? From a diferent universe? Why, initially, are there no creatures on the sea floor, and then, suddenly, swarms of "impossible animals" of whole new species? Who-or what-
is is transmitting messages onto the scientists' computer screen...messages tha tgrow increasingly hostile?
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What is the giant, perfect, metallic sphere-clearly not made by man, and seemingly impenetrable by him-that they find inside the spaceship?
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And most crucially-what is the extraordinary,...the terrifying power that threatens their undersea habitat,